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The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument: one-dimensional power spectrum from first Ly α forest samples with Fast Fourier Transform

Ravoux, C; Abdul Karim, ML; Armengaud, E; Walther, M; Karaçayll, NG; Martini, P; Guy, J; ... Zhou, Z; + view all (2023) The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument: one-dimensional power spectrum from first Ly α forest samples with Fast Fourier Transform. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 526 (4) pp. 5118-5140. 10.1093/mnras/stad3008. Green open access

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Abstract

We present the one-dimensional Ly α forest power spectrum measurement using the first data provided by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The data sample comprises 26 330 quasar spectra, at redshift z > 2.1, contained in the DESI Early Data Release and the first 2 months of the main survey. We employ a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) estimator and compare the resulting power spectrum to an alternative likelihood-based method in a companion paper. We investigate methodological and instrumental contaminants associated with the new DESI instrument, applying techniques similar to previous Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) measurements. We use synthetic data based on lognormal approximation to validate and correct our measurement. We compare our resulting power spectrum with previous SDSS and high-resolution measurements. With relatively small number statistics, we successfully perform the FFT measurement, which is already competitive in terms of the scale range. At the end of the DESI survey, we expect a five times larger Ly α forest sample than SDSS, providing an unprecedented precise one-dimensional power spectrum measurement.

Type: Article
Title: The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument: one-dimensional power spectrum from first Ly α forest samples with Fast Fourier Transform
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3008
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3008
Language: English
Additional information: © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: intergalactic medium, large-scale structure of Universe, cosmology: observations
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181983
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